Chapter 174 World Anchor
Chapter 174 World Anchor
Fatigue and tiredness came over me, followed by a severe headache.
Most people's headaches are either in the temples or migraines, but Xia Yubing is different. She suffers from the pain in the back of her head.
He opened his eyes and saw that it was already dawn. Xia Yubing covered his throat with one hand and struggled to get up. He could vaguely feel the excruciating pain of his throat and brain stem being torn apart by the bullet. He felt as if his head was solidified into a ball of paste.
Looking up from behind the sun, Xia Yubing saw a huge face without any facial features.
That is the north side of the Four-Faced Buddha.
"Awake?" A familiar voice came from the side.
Xia Yubing turned around and saw Ning Zhe, who was still using the identity of Feng Yusu, sitting quietly beside her, looking down at her as she just got up from the ground.
"What...happened?" Xia Yubing sat up, still a little dazed.
Ning Zhe's action of feeding the bullet into her mouth was so smooth that Xia Yubing lost consciousness before she could even react to what happened, so she was still confused when she woke up.
"Thanks to you, I have basically figured out the rules of this place." Ning Zhe said softly, "If nothing unexpected happens, we can leave soon."
"Hey..." Xia Yubing's groggy mind was sobered up by the joy. She didn't even bother to ask where Xiao Ke, who had been traveling with her, had gone. She asked excitedly, "Are you serious? Can we go now?"
Does this mean that she can finally leave this damn place and go home?
"You can say that." Ning Zhe gently brushed the scattered hair behind his ears and said, "The premise is that the result I deduced before is correct."
"…Reasoning?" Xia Yubing was a little curious: "I mean, have you figured out what happened in this place?"
"It's just a very likely guess. It's still lacking final verification, so it's okay to tell you."
Ning Zhe played with the gun in his hand and said slowly:
"This town called Zanju is a very ambiguous place. An amorphous probability quantum cloud shrouds it, interfering with the cognition of those who enter it and distorting the boundary between reality and thought."
Here, two people with different perceptions observe the same thing at the same time and place, and they will get different observation results. "
Xia Yubing shook her head: "I...I don't quite understand."
“Let me give you an analogy.
Suppose you and I are standing in a pitch-dark room, the curtains are opened a little, and a beam of sunlight shines in from outside, and you and I both see this beam of sunlight.
Sunlight is almost colorless natural light. At this time, a prism lens is placed by the window, which refracts the colorless natural light into a variety of different colors.
People standing in different positions see different colors, but in essence, you and I are seeing the same beam of light. "
Ning Zhe removed the magazine from his pistol, checked it, and reinstalled it, then said:
"The colorless natural light is the objective real world, and the prism that distorts colors is the quantum cloud that covers this town. Different people have different perceptions, just like standing in different positions in the room. These factors combine to cause different observations of the same thing."
“For example, when we were under the lotus pedestal of the Buddha statue before, you heard Jiang Han’s voice, but I didn’t, because I knew he might be dead, but you didn’t.
In your cognition, Jiang Han is still alive. The quantum cloud distorts your observation based on your cognition, so you observe wrong facts and hear the voice of Jiang Han who is still alive.
After I reminded you, you realized that Jiang Han was dead, your 'position' was moved, and you therefore observed another fact."
As for whether Jiang Han is alive or dead? Who knows.
Perhaps the dead Jiang Han in Ning Zhe's eyes was just a wrong observation due to different angles. Xia Yubing nodded as if she understood: "Then...how do we get out? Back to reality?"
"This is simple. If you want to return to reality, you must observe reality." Ning Zhe continued:
“According to my speculation, the further people’s cognition deviates from objective facts in this place, the more serious the observation interference they suffer, and the further they are from the real world.
In other words, as long as you follow this line of thought and slowly adjust your cognition until the observed world is completely consistent with the real world, you will successfully return to reality. "
Xia Yubing still had confusion between her brows, but it was much better than before: "Although it's a little hard to understand, I roughly know what to do, but...how do we determine what reality is like?"
How can they be sure of what reality is like when the act of observation is disrupted by a quantum cloud?
If you act recklessly without knowing what reality is like, it’s fine if you guess right, but you’re afraid that you’ll go in the wrong direction. The more you do, the further you’ll deviate from reality and sink deeper and deeper into the quantum cloud. So what should you do?
"This is easy." Ning Zhe raised his hand and pointed at the four-faced Buddha behind him: "Remember the beam of natural light coming in from the window? This is the original light."
What is true? What is false? What is objective fact, and who gets to define it?
The answer to the puzzle has been sitting at the very center of the world since the beginning.
What He believes to be true is true, and what He believes to be untrue is also true.
What He considers to be false is false, and what He considers to be not false is also false.
This is the rule of the Four-Faced Buddha.
"Xiao Ke died a long time ago. You and I both know this. But she was still alive and kicking until recently. It was because the Four-Faced Buddha believed she was still alive."
They had previously successfully bribed the Three Corpses to report Xiao Ke's death to the Erawan Shrine, preventing the Erawan Shrine from knowing the truth about Xiao Ke's death.
The Four-Faced Buddha doesn’t know that Xiao Ke is dead, so Xiao Ke is still alive.
The Four-Faced Buddha believes that as long as you are alive, you are alive.
If the Four-Faced Buddha thinks you are dead, then you are dead.
Ning Zhe concluded: "In this world, truth and falsehood are all determined by Him. He is the benchmark that anchors the events of this entire world."
So we just need to use Him as an anchor and adjust our thoughts.
"So that's how it is..." Xia Yubing raised her head cautiously, looking at the Four-Faced Buddha with more awe in her eyes: "Then let's get started and return to the real world as soon as possible."
"No hurry." Ning Zhe shook his head: "As I said, the above are just speculations based on the information I have."
No matter how precise the reasoning is, it is still just reasoning. After all, it has not been verified by facts, and whether it is true or not remains to be discussed.
"Then do you have any way to verify this hypothesis?" Xia Yubing suddenly became anxious. She really didn't want to stay in this ghost place, not even for a second longer.
"Practice is the only criterion for testing truth." Ning Zhe removed and reinstalled the magazine of the pistol, turned the safety on and off, and said casually: "Of course there are ways to verify the facts, but I need your cooperation."
"Tell me, what do you need me to do?" Xia Yubing stood up quickly, not wanting to delay any longer.
Ning Zhe laughed: "I need you to die."
Before he could finish his words, a bullet pierced Xia Yubing's brain stem again.
(End of this chapter)